3+ hour, 21+ min ago   (394+ words) On August 15, 2026, OCU head Serhiy Dumenko spoke at a ceremonial event at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra marking the monastery’s 975th anniversary. Addressing Volodymyr Zelensky, representatives of the government and the Verkhovna Rada, as well as foreign guests attending the event, the OCU…...

2+ hour, 58+ min ago   (265+ words) UOC church in Karasivka damaged by shelling. Collage: UOJ Another Russian attack has damaged a UOC church in the village of Karasivka in the Kharkiv Eparchy. No local residents were injured in the shelling, the Kharkiv Eparchy reports. An enemy…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago   (309+ words) On August 15, 2026, during an event at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra marking the monastery’s 975th anniversary, UNESCO Director-General Khaled El-Enany and Jacques Gerber, the Swiss Federal Council’s delegate for Ukraine, announced how much their organizations had allocated toward restoring the damaged Dormition Cathedral....

18+ hour, 39+ min ago   (340+ words) A military song and dance ensemble served as the choir during the OCU’s festive Dormition “service.” On August 15, 2026, OCU head Serhiy Dumenko led a festive “service” for the Dormition of the Mother of God according to the new calendar. The…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (349+ words) The Synod reaffirmed the historical mission of the Jerusalem Church and called for the preservation of the Christian presence in the Holy Land. The Holy Synod of the Jerusalem Patriarchate discussed Church affairs, the preservation of the Holy Sites, and…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (300+ words) On August 15, 2026, the feast day commemorating the apparition of the Most Holy Theotokos in Josaphat Valley, Metropolitan Serhiy of Ternopil and Kremenets led a festive service at the Exaltation of the Cross Monastery located in the Valley of Crosses, the…...

21+ hour, 56+ min ago   (280+ words) In the Roman Catholic St. Patrokli Cathedral in Soest (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany, a statue, a side altar, and adjacent masonry were defaced with black paint on August 10, 2026, reports the UOJ in Germany. The preliminary damage estimate is approximately 15,000 euros. The…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (339+ words) A Baptist pastor received a suspended sentence with a one-year probation period. The Horodenka District Court in Ivano-Frankivsk region sentenced a Baptist pastor to three years in prison for refusing mobilization, but suspended the sentence and released him from serving…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (303+ words) A surviving hostage has described the deaths of Christians and the harsh conditions of captivity in a militant camp in Nigeria. At least eight of the 37 hostages taken from Ariko village, Kachia Local Government Area (LGA) of Southern Kaduna, Nigeria,…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (590+ words) The meeting on joining the OCU was led by clerics from Dumenko’s structure. Two UOC communities in the villages of Sedniv and Nove, Chernihiv region, voluntarily joined the OCU together with their priest, reports the State Service for Ethnopolitics (DESS)....